Search \ VOGONS

Re: Prices on AMD FX8xxx and lower series (socket AM3+) - what is going on here ?

Posted on Today, 01:13

in Milliways

Before I had a K6-2 system I may have had a K6 for a while. I don't remember the first K6-2 CPU I had, but when I was running a K6-2 550, I paid around $50 for it. The Intel CPUs were at least 4x that amount. I was getting a discount... something like 15% over cost. Edit: I was working at a local …

Re: Do those exist at all: Serial-to-USB / Parallel-to-USB / SCSI-to-USB / PCMCIA (Type I or II) to USB adapters ?

Posted on Yesterday, 21:56

by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Not really. It has to be fast enough to translate the USB protocol to serial. if that was directed at my reply, then No. That can be done with a microchip microcontroller. No need whatsoever to throw a whole raspberry pi with USB, HDMI, camera connector etc at it. if not then... If I remember …

Re: Do those exist at all: Serial-to-USB / Parallel-to-USB / SCSI-to-USB / PCMCIA (Type I or II) to USB adapters ?

Posted on Yesterday, 21:53

by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Don't know why, but always thought that USB t0 PS2 + PS2 to Serial adapters should be enough for a mouse 🙄 Must be careful with such things... Those common PS/2 mouse <-> COM port adapters only work if the mouse is designed for both PS/2 and COM ports, notably it must support the 12 V of the RS-232 …

Re: Do those exist at all: Serial-to-USB / Parallel-to-USB / SCSI-to-USB / PCMCIA (Type I or II) to USB adapters ?

Posted on Yesterday, 17:09

by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Not really. It has to be fast enough to translate the USB protocol to serial.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-10-15, 23:25

by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

pola Shagittarius wrote on 2021-10-15, 00:04: I usually like when my Guitar amps dont have a ground that way I can reverse polarity if I need to so I don't get shocked by the microphone. So the wiring in the buildings has reverse polarity.. or somebody replaced an outlet and reversed the polarity.

Re: Does Audigy 4 fill a gap?

Posted on 2021-10-15, 23:14

by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ Sound

The Audigy 4 Pro just has better DACs so you will have cleaner output. Other than that, you will not see any difference over the Audigy 2 ZS. https://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/creative_labs_sound_blaster_audigy_4_pro,1.html Audigy 2 DAC: 1x CS4382: 8out 114dB dynamic range, -100dB THD+N Audigy 4 …

Re: Do those exist at all: Serial-to-USB / Parallel-to-USB / SCSI-to-USB / PCMCIA (Type I or II) to USB adapters ?

Posted on 2021-10-15, 19:18

by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well.. here is a different idea. Parallel port to IDE adapter.. with DOS drivers. https://www.ebay.com/itm/IDE-Drive-to-Parallel-Port-Converter-Adapter-Bridgeboard-Datastor-EP-2000-/273395273722 (Not my listing, nor do I sell these or have anything to do with the seller.) IDE to Parallel Converter …

Re: Do those exist at all: Serial-to-USB / Parallel-to-USB / SCSI-to-USB / PCMCIA (Type I or II) to USB adapters ?

Posted on 2021-10-15, 19:16

by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

BitWrangler wrote on 2021-10-15, 19:13: It says it might later be developed for storage in the middle somewhere, so I guess the potential is there, just not the whole solution. Page says it was last updated in 2018. 😐

Re: Do those exist at all: Serial-to-USB / Parallel-to-USB / SCSI-to-USB / PCMCIA (Type I or II) to USB adapters ?

Posted on 2021-10-15, 19:09

by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well.. here is a different idea. Parallel port to IDE adapter.. with DOS drivers. https://www.ebay.com/itm/IDE-Drive-to-Parallel-Port-Converter-Adapter-Bridgeboard-Datastor-EP-2000-/273395273722 (Not my listing, nor do I sell these or have anything to do with the seller.) IDE to Parallel Converter …

Re: Virtual Machine with 3D-Acceleration for Windows 9x?

Posted on 2021-10-15, 18:50

by cyclone3d

in PC Emulation

VMware only presents a Direct3D supported card for XP and later. Other options are QEMU with a patch as mentioned above, or QEMU with GPU passthrough, assuming that you have two gpus. Then there is a long time dead, unfinished project to bring Voodoo2 emulation to QEMU, the original author is …

Re: Do those exist at all: Serial-to-USB / Parallel-to-USB / SCSI-to-USB / PCMCIA (Type I or II) to USB adapters ?

Posted on 2021-10-15, 18:43

by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

One thing does come to mind as far as parallel port goes. You could always get a Microsolutions Backpack Parallel floppy drive and then replace the drive with a Gotek floppy emulator. Interesting idea. Though it seems like you'll be able to use only one type of device - Disk-on-key. Yeah, but it …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-10-15, 18:35

by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Bought this PC from my local scrap source. It doesn't have the front cover, power supply, HDD, FDD... But it has the most important part - motherboard with CPU and ram. I hope it works. There is also an ISA VLB VGA card and an ISA sound card. Sadly people still dump their old computers, whilst they …

Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2021-10-15, 16:48

by cyclone3d

in Milliways

The collectors be crazy. I don't go buying stuff for inflated prices just because it has the original box. I do buy boxed stuff when I see it pop up for cheap though.

Re: Do those exist at all: Serial-to-USB / Parallel-to-USB / SCSI-to-USB / PCMCIA (Type I or II) to USB adapters ?

Posted on 2021-10-15, 14:40

by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

One thing does come to mind as far as parallel port goes. You could always get a Microsolutions Backpack Parallel floppy drive and then replace the drive with a Gotek floppy emulator. I guess you may also be able to do the same thing with a Parallel CD-ROM drive and one of those expensive CD-ROM …

Re: Do those exist at all: Serial-to-USB / Parallel-to-USB / SCSI-to-USB / PCMCIA (Type I or II) to USB adapters ?

Posted on 2021-10-15, 13:46

by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That pic is a joke. The only thing really possible out of your list is a PCMCIA USB adapter. Those do exist but unsure if there are any that will work with DOS. Probably not with There are some USB DOS drivers but you would just need to try them out and see if you can get something to work: https:// …

Re: Lada Racing Club - skip protection system (FrontLine)

Posted on 2021-10-15, 13:31

by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ Software

Well, what are the system requirements for the game and what are the specs of your system?

Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2021-10-15, 13:26

by cyclone3d

in Milliways

The description on that 3DO Blaster is great. "if you like giving me large sums of money".... 😁

Re: Compact Flash as a hard drive...cant boot why ?

Posted on 2021-10-14, 21:50

by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've had CF cards that the correct settings are not detected by an older computer. Hook it up to a newer computer and it will detect the correct settings. You can then manually enter the correct settings in the BIOS of the old computer and the card "magically" starts working as expected.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-10-13, 19:41

by cyclone3d

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

got this to satisfy a curiosity of mine. Will it run on a 440bx... more to come. Nice. I have an ASUS adapter I got a while back.. NIB. Came with a BIOS, BIOS update floppy and mounting hardware. I have a stupid idea to try it and instead of using a PPro CPU, use the Pentiun II 333 Socket 8 …

Re: Prices on AMD FX8xxx and lower series (socket AM3+) - what is going on here ?

Posted on 2021-10-13, 19:23

by cyclone3d

in Milliways

*cough cough* K6 Yes, K6 cpus are also overpriced I think and their performance is.... just leave it in a bit low, but the platform is interesting to play with. It has so many quirks and faults, that it becomes interesting. And AM3 CPUS aren't the best for XP, they doesn't have the best IPC of the …

Main menu

Common searches

Search results

Display options

Re: Prices on AMD FX8xxx and lower series (socket AM3+) - what is going on here ?

Re: Do those exist at all: Serial-to-USB / Parallel-to-USB / SCSI-to-USB / PCMCIA (Type I or II) to USB adapters ?

Re: Do those exist at all: Serial-to-USB / Parallel-to-USB / SCSI-to-USB / PCMCIA (Type I or II) to USB adapters ?

Re: Do those exist at all: Serial-to-USB / Parallel-to-USB / SCSI-to-USB / PCMCIA (Type I or II) to USB adapters ?

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Re: Does Audigy 4 fill a gap?

Re: Do those exist at all: Serial-to-USB / Parallel-to-USB / SCSI-to-USB / PCMCIA (Type I or II) to USB adapters ?

Re: Do those exist at all: Serial-to-USB / Parallel-to-USB / SCSI-to-USB / PCMCIA (Type I or II) to USB adapters ?

Re: Do those exist at all: Serial-to-USB / Parallel-to-USB / SCSI-to-USB / PCMCIA (Type I or II) to USB adapters ?

Re: Virtual Machine with 3D-Acceleration for Windows 9x?

Re: Do those exist at all: Serial-to-USB / Parallel-to-USB / SCSI-to-USB / PCMCIA (Type I or II) to USB adapters ?

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Re: Do those exist at all: Serial-to-USB / Parallel-to-USB / SCSI-to-USB / PCMCIA (Type I or II) to USB adapters ?

Re: Do those exist at all: Serial-to-USB / Parallel-to-USB / SCSI-to-USB / PCMCIA (Type I or II) to USB adapters ?

Re: Lada Racing Club - skip protection system (FrontLine)

Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Re: Compact Flash as a hard drive...cant boot why ?

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Re: Prices on AMD FX8xxx and lower series (socket AM3+) - what is going on here ?